A new book spanning the career of Alice, and the Original Alice Cooper Band, is set to be published on June 13th in the UK, and September 1st in the USA. Titled, Welcome To My Nightmare: The Story of Alice Cooper, it is written by Dave Thompson who has many rock books under his belt.

"Drawing from exclusive and unpublished interviews with a variety of names and faces from throughout Alice's career, the book follows Cooper's tale from his life growing up as a preacher's son in Arizona, through the early years of struggle in Phoenix and then Los Angeles, and then onto the rollercoaster ride that has been the years since then.Includes interviews with original bandmates Michael Bruce and the late Glenn Buxton, drummer Neal Smith, the late Frank Zappa, manager Shep Gordon and producer Bob Ezrin. Includes tributes and recollections from many of the artists who call Alice an influence - from the Damned and the Cramps, to White Zombie and Gwar. Session players and songwriters who have made their own contributions to the Alice story recall their days spent with this Prince of Hell-raisers. The result is a story that alternately thrills, shocks, surprises and delights. Includes full discography and bibliography."

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"Unavailable and unseen for more than 30 years, Alice Cooper's macabre masterpiece The Strange Case of Alice Cooper will be released on DVD for the first time on May 22, 2012 from Shout! Factory.

The Strange Case Of Alice Cooper is more than a concert film. It is the warped tale of one man's descent into madness, a theatrical rock 'n' roll spectacle that could only emerge from the twisted imagination of Alice Cooper.

Recorded live on April 9, 1979, in San Diego, California during a stop on the Madhouse Rock Tour, Strange Case was inspired by Alice's stay in a New York sanitarium and the people he encountered there. Vincent Price introduces the proceedings as ghoulish doctors and transvestite nurses cross paths with dancing bottles of alcohol. All the while, Alice performs songs off his album From The Inside, as well as many of his most well-known and best-loved hits.

A must-have for fans of Alice Cooper and rock music alike, Strange Case will be available in stores nationwide with a suggested retail price of $16.98. The DVD also features an audio commentary by Alice Cooper."

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A few months ago, "Alone In His Nightmare" was released on CD, which features a live performance in Los Angeles, California from Alice's Welcome To My Nightmare tour in 1975. The album will now be released on double 180g red vinyl which will be limited to only 1000 copies. If you haven't already picked this up, it seems NOW is the time. The vinyl release is scheduled for April 23rd, or there abouts.

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Chrome Dreams in the UK are releasing a new documentary on the subject of Frank Zappa and Herb Cohen's Straight and Bizarre label from the late 60's and early 70's. Titled From Straight To Bizarre, the documentary features the Alice Cooper group quite heavily. Both Neal Smith and Dennis Dunaway are interviewed where they discuss auditioning and working with Frank Zappa, as well as being signed to Straight Records for the release of their first three albums (Pretties For You, Easy Action, and Love It To Death). There is also a fair amount of archival footage and photographs of the Alice Cooper Group featured in the documentary. From Straight To Bizarre is a worthy introduction to the bizarre acts Frank signed to his label during this brief period of highly experimental and creative music, also covering such acts as the GTO's, Wild Man Fisher, Captain Beefheart, Easy Chair and more. The documentary will be released on February 21st 2012 and is available to order from the Chrome Dreams website or from Amazon.co.uk. It is well worth picking up if you are into the Bizarre scene.

"The impulse for artists and musicians to form their own record labels are many. But often these endeavours are little more than vanity projects for which enthusiasm wanes when the first rush of releases fail to take off - leaving charity stores and flea markets awash with the unsold booty of such initially ambitious enterprises.

But on occasion proceedings in a side-line of this nature can prove not just sustainable but fascinating, profitable and wholly worthwhile; a task made a little easier when the boss is a bit smarter than the average guitar hero!

So it was with Frank Zappa. Desperate to remove himself from his original deal with Verve Records, in 1968 he set up the Bizarre and Straight labels in league with manger Herb Cohen, and so began a string of releases which remain extraordinary in the extreme.

Records by Frank himself and with his Mothers of Invention would rub shoulders in the label’s racks with releases by notorious paranoid schizophrenic and part time songwriter, Wild Man Fischer, ex-groupies the all female GTOs, acapella gospel collective The Persuasions, the first clutch of Alice Cooper records, Tim Buckley’s enigmatic Starsailor, live recordings by Lenny Bruce and Lord Buckley, and a range of other musical oddities generally of a quite startling quality despite their oft-eccentric content.

But it would be a 1969 release by the Mother Superior’s old teenage buddy Don Van Vliet – by then long re-christened Captain Beefheart - that would provide the art-statement for which the Bizarre/Straight enterprise is remembered best, and which remains to this day the pinnacle of achievement, not just at the House of Zappa & Cohen, but, for many, also within the normal confines of the genre loosely termed 'Rock & Roll'. To suggest that Trout Mask Replica - for it is this sonic marvel of which we speak - moved-the-goalposts is akin to claiming Jack the Ripper had ‘an eye for the ladies’!

This film revisits and reviews the astonishing music that came out on Bizarre and Straight, and reveals the background, operations and, crucially, the lives of the musicians, performers and management who made these labels the legendary reality they became.

The film contains exclusive interviews with many of the labels’ contributors including, Pamela Des Barres, John French, Jerry Lawson, Jeff Simmons, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith, Essra Mohawk, Miss Mercy, Kim Fowley, Bill Harkleroad plus authors Ben Watson, Barry Miles, Mark Paytress, Billy James and Ritchie Unterberger. Also includes rare footage, archive interviews, location shoots, extras - and of course the music that made it all worthwhile."

Smokin' are releasing a radio broadcast of a performance in Los Angeles, California from Alice's Welcome To My Nightmare tour in 1975. This high quality soundboard recording release is titled "Alone In His Nightmare" and features the complete set of the gig from Alice's legendary tour. This isn't the first time this show has been released, but this new release makes it far easier to obtain once again. The track listing is as follows:

Intro/Welcome To My Nightmare
Years Ago Intro
No More Mr Nice Guy
Years Ago Intro Part 2
Billion Dollar Babies
Years Ago Intro Part 3
I’m Eighteen
Steven’s Intro
Welcome To My Nightmare Reprise
Some Folks
Cold Ethyl
Only Women Bleed
Devil’s Food
Black Widow
Steven
Welcome To My Nightmare Reprise Part 2
Escape
School’s Out
Encore Chant
Department Of Youth

The CD is scheduled to be released January 29th 2012 and is limited to the UK and Europe. It is available via Amazon.co.uk or from Chrome Dreams.